David Schwartz
@paledave
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two hands/barthian funker/erstwhile forklift operator/book reporter/2020 Mendi League champion/here for now #月亮代表我的心 // starless // iron lion zion // wales
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Joined January 2009
this has been my life the past seven years https://t.co/nwtifJmWDk
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The Secret Adversary; Partners In Crime; N or M?; By The Pricking Of My Thumbs--Agatha Christie. 80% of the Tommy & Tuppence series. Alternately spy stuff and murders; what's interesting is that T & T age in real time over forty-odd years. The latter books are very good.
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The Portable Dorothy Parker. Alas, this does not carry over into the present day. The short stories are same-y, featuring superficial young ladies; the poetry is mostly bad; leaving book reviews and bon mots, which is not enough to put Mrs. Parker into the pantheon.
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They'd only be in their 70s now. William, Alison, Jeffrey, Sandy. #kentstate
@drmistercody I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens.
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The Bobo (1967). One of dozens of wretched comedies that sidetracked Peter Sellers' career; he was a holy terror on the set, as usual, screaming at the crew and making wife/leading lady Britt Ekland miserable. The situations are comic but PS plays it like Hamlet. Strange.
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The Dresser (1983). By far the best and most moving film of its year. Besides the performances, every detail is just right: script, sets, costumes, and Peter Yates' electrifying direction. In a better world both Finney and Courtenay would have won Oscars, A perfect movie.
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The Mid-Autumn Festival is China's second-biggest traditional holiday after Chinese New Year, marked on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, when the moon appears at its fullest and brightest of the year. #MoonlitMoments #GoldenWeek #ChasingtheMoon #ChinaGlowup
Golden Week in China glowed from desert to riverside. On Thursday, Dunhuang's night market shimmered with Silk Road charm and sizzling street eats. By Friday, fireworks burst above Tancheng's ancient walls in Shandong Province, lighting up centuries of history. One moon, many
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Yogi was probably right, but for the sake of history I'm glad the ump blew the call
Jackie Robinson steals home on Yankees catcher Yogi Berra and pitcher Whitey Ford during game 1 of the 1955 World Series.
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RIP Chris Dreja #ChrisDreja #Yardbirds #PaulSamwellSmith #KeithRelf #JimMcCarty #EricClapton B-side to "For Your Love" and a Green Onions vibe; Dreja was a stalwart player from beginning to end in a legendary band https://t.co/QoWoQzZ1GU
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A Morning With...Acting Writers #GoreVidal #BobRoberts #BrickleyPaiste #TimRobbins #AlanRickman #Burr #MyraBreckenridge #Williwaw #BenHur #Duluth #Messiah Vidal was simply the best, non-stop entertainment, been reading him for 50-odd years
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A Morning With...Acting Writers #NormanMailer #SCTV #EugeneLevy #TheExecutionersSong #OswaldsTale #HarlotsGhost #ExistentialErrands the relevant clip from Ragtime is n/a, and I didn't have the heart to watch Maidstone; this'll do nicely https://t.co/oRyRfpuruc
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A Morning With...Acting Writers #TrumanCapote #AlbertMaysles #DavidMaysles #InColdBlood #BreakfastAtTiffanys #MusicForChameleons a worthwhile clip, from 1965, that adds to the mystique. he fell so far, so fast, and he knew it as he was plunging https://t.co/DT29byegIB
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A Morning With...Acting Writers #JerzyKosinski #Reds #WarrenBeatty #Zinoviev #JohnReed #ThePaintedBird #Steps #Cockpit #BeingThere #BlindDate #Pinball for better or worse I have read all of Kosinski, and will reread him ad perpetuum https://t.co/cnN7UAccME
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A Morning With...Acting Writers #GeorgePlimpton #GoodWillHunting #GusVanSant #MattDamon #PaperLion #MadDucksAndBears #TheParisReview #MouseterpieceTheater love this guy https://t.co/Za2EQKmKtn
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A Book Read 2025: Dolores--Jacqueline Susann. Susann writes like a none-too-bright 6th grader with several axes to grind, and she tars and feathers all things related to the K*nnedys. (I didn't know Mrs. Onassis wore a hairpiece.) It's pure libel, and I believe every word.
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@paledave @orbis_quintus Of course V. was published by a 26-year old which is frankly astonishing.
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A Book Read 2025: The Novel Now--Anthony Burgess. "Now" would be circa 1966-67. A valiant, readable, and idiosyncratic World tour; Burgess condenses his authors into bite-size or larger appraisals. It's good but he doesn't get 'em all: no P Roth or J Roth but H Roth is here.
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Arch Of Triumph--Erich Maria Remarque. Paris, 1939; a soapy romance. Wooden characters in meaningless situations; unfathomable that the same pen wrote AQOTWF. Either Remarque wrote this in the bathtub, or he must have been hard-up for money. Jackie Collins-level writing.
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RIP Typepad; RIP Missing The Moon (2007-2025). Typepad is shuttering and taking with it my little chunk of the Internet. Missing The Moon wasn't very original but it was a good creative outlet for me and also wildly successful; 1,600,000 pageviews ain't nothing to sneeze at.
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